KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. Review

  The Most Important Data about KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC.

In the briefest summary, KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. is a medical group with 11 professionals providing medical services at 12 locations. They cover 3 specialties.KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. is affiliated with 10 hospitals

National Provider Number (NPI):

4385634179

   What is this page all about?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC.. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Ratings, Specialities Covered, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Physician Groups.)

   Specialties Covered by KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC.

KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. includes medical professionals from 3 specialties

Specialty	Number
NURSE PRACTITIONER	6
INTERNAL MEDICINE	3
NEPHROLOGY	5

   Ratings for KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC.

When it comes to healthcare, patients want the best possible care and experience. Figuring this out and boiling it down to a few measures, can be difficult. The information below shows our best analysis. We review all of the the data from CMS. The information below summarizes the results of the most recent annual survey of health care providers called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or "CAHPS" as well as data used for the calculation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"). The most recent data for both of these datasets is calendar year 2021. According to the CMS website, the 2022 survey data is being finalized but they have not indicated when it will be publicly available.

CAHPS Survey Results

There is no information about the overall patient rating for KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC..

MIPS Measures

Measure	Percent Compliance
Clinical Data Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Closing the Referral Loop: Receipt of Specialist Report	8%
Controlling High Blood Pressure	71%
Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)	91%
Diabetes: Medical Attention for Nephropathy	100%
Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record	74%
Engagement of New Medicaid Patients and Follow-up	Yes
Immunization Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop	Yes
Implementation of improvements that contribute to more timely communication of test results	Yes
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation	Yes
Pneumococcal Vaccination Status for Older Adults	70%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	36%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	98%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	91%
Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information	69%
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Reconciling Health Information	38%
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information	5%
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting Exclusion	Yes
e-Prescribing	99%

   KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. Office Locations

   Hospitals Affiliated with KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC.

KIDNEY ASSOCIATES, INC. professionals work with these hospitals:

• AVITA ONTARIO
• BUCYRUS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
• FISHER-TITUS HOSPITAL
• GALION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
• HARDIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
• MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL
• MERCY HEALTH - WILLARD HOSPITAL
• MORROW COUNTY HOSPITAL
• OHIOHEALTH MANSFIELD HOSPITAL

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